What’s that line? Never try to make someone understand something if their job depends on them not understanding it? That’s how I feel about conservatives like Bill Kristol and Nick Lowry, who want to lead the way out of the wilderness for conservatives. Their magazine revenues may depend on it. But a real conservative intellectual would look around and question why they have wasted their time on conservatism in the first place. The failure of Reagan-Bushism has been total. What didn’t fail in practice, failed because human nature refused to put it in practice. So, why not try a new line?